Fatal car fire under investigation

Tuesday

Oct 30, 2007 at 8:59 AM

CHERRY RIDGE TOWNSHIP — The body of Steven Palacino of Lake Ariel was found Saturday morning inside a car that had burned in a residential driveway on Lake Ariel Highway (Route 191) in Wayne County, state police said.

It initially appeared the fire started when Palacino’s 1988 Honda Accord went off the road and into the driveway of Joseph Biamonte, rear-ending Biamonte’s 2001 Dodge Dakota, at 3:47 a.m. Police now suspect that’s not what caused the fire and are investigating.

Police are asking the person who first arrived on scene and knocked on Biamonte’s door to alert him to the fire in his driveway to contact Trooper Brown at (570) 253-7126. Anyone else with information on this incident also is asked to contact police.

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